2009-12-11

Privacy

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

I almost agree. I'd add that "You should probably accept the possibility of it being made public. I don't mean in a "is it worth the risk", but just, while it's convenient that the whole world doesn't know, you should have an idea that you could tolerate its becoming public. I mostly thought of this after trying to evaluate how I felt about Jason Fortuny's Craigslist Experiment. I suppose I feel: if it's real, it exists in the world and its existence will challenge concealment.